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Excerpt from Historical Address, Relating to the County of Broome in the State of New York: Delivered at Binghamton, July 3, 1876
A history of the County of Broome for the last century would include every change in its condition from that of a wild waste and an untamed forest to that of its present highly culti vated condition. One hundred years ago to day, the area of land now included within the boundaries of this County was an unbroken wilderness - a region of solitude undisturbed by the footsteps of man, save now and then by a party of red men, engaged in hunting or intent upon the war path. Its present cultivated hills, and its rich productive valleys, were then cov ered with the primeval forests, through which roamed the pan ther, the bear, the wolf, the deer, and other species of Wild an imals. This entire region was then the hunting grounds of various tribes of Indians, chie?y of the Six Nations, who, as you well know, had their villages and council fires in the central portion of our State. Here likewise may have been encounter ed parties of the Algonquin tribes, from the central portion of Pennsylvania. There were no lodges nor permanent villages in this part of the country, unless, perhaps, one at quaga. We hear of the old Indian castle situate Within a few miles of this place, but there is no evidence or reason to believe that it was in any way used as a permanent residence, as were the vi] lages of the Iroquois nations in another section of the State.
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